The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-11-11

| honorably discharged from the army. he was
admitted and tarrsed during the night. In
tne night time there was a knocking at the
front door, and two rufiians broke IL, tod
/ spoil that household No sooner had they
come over the door-sin than the armes, guest,
who had primed his piece and charged it
WIN slugS, met them, and telling the woman
70 stand back, am happy 70 say, dropped
the two assanlting desperadoes deal at his
feet. Well, now there are no bandits prowling
around TO destroy our houses: but how often
II IS that we find those that have BEN our
guests become our defenders We gave them
shelter first, and then Afterwards In ths great
conflicts of life they fought for oui- repu-
tation; they fought for our propert,r; they
fought for our soul.
Another reward that comes from Christian
hospitality is in the assurance that We shall
have hospitality shown TO US and to ours In
the uDturnings Of this life who knows in
what CITY or what iand we may pe thrown,
and how much we may need an open doori
There may come no such crisis TO us, tut our
children may be thrown into soma such
strait He who Is in Christian manner hos
pitable has free pass through all Christen-
dom Il may be that you will have been
dead fifty years before any such stress shall
come upon one Of your descendants; but do
you not suppose that God can remember
fifty yearsi And the knuckle of the grand
child will he heard against the door Of some
stranger and that door will open; and il will
BE- talked over in heaven, and it will be said:
That mans grandfather. fifty years ago,
gave shelter to a stranger, and now
strangers door is open for a grandson
Among the Greeks after entertaining and
being ente tanned, they take a piece Of lead
and cut it in two, and the host takes one-haif
OF the piece of lead and the guest the other
halt as they part These two pieces OF lead
are handed down from generation TO genera
ton, and from family TO family; and after
awhile per41. one OF the families in want or
IN trouble go out with this one piece OF lead
and ind the other family with the core
sponding piece of lead, and no sooner is the
tally completed than the old hospitality is
aroused and eternal friendship pledged so
the memory of Christian hospitalitvar.spvo
-e4lz.a -frQm- generation 70 ger.-sp. -
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never be lost, reither in this world nos the
world TO come
Mark this: the day viii come when we will
all be turned out-of-doors, without any ex-
epton-bare foot, bare-head, no water in
the canteen, no bread in the hayersack, and
we will go in that way into the future world
And | wonder if eternal Inequalities will
open before US, and il we viii be received
into everlasting habitationsi Francis FRS
co5ald was rich Italian, and he was very
merclful and very hospltahle. One day an
Englishman by the name Of Thomas Cro1l-
well appeared at his door asking for
shelter and aims, which were cheerfully
rendered. Frsscobald afterward lost all his
property, became very poor, and wandered
up into England; and one day ne saw pro-
cessiOn plssing. an lOi it was the Lord Chan
cellor OF England; and 10. the Lord Chancel
Tor Of England was Thomas Cromwell, the
very man whom he had once befr.endei in
Italy. The Lord Chancellor at the first glance
OF Fnescobald, recognized him, and dis
molutei from his carriage, threw his arms
around him, embraced him paid his debts,
fnr-a f.aN inn -. aud sal
" Here are ten pieces Of money 10 pay for the
bread you gave me, and here are ten pic es OF
money TO provide for the horse you loaned
me and here are four bags, in each Of which
are four hundred dncats Take them and be
we'll So It will be at last with us II we
entertain Christ in the person Of His disciples
in this world, when we pass up into the next
country, We will meet Christ in regal pro
cession, and He will pour all the wealth
Of heaven into orr lap, and open before
US everlasting hospitalitieS And D, how
tame are the richest entertainments we can
give on earth compared with the regal mu-
nif ,ence which Christ will display bsfore our
souls in heaven ! was reading the account
which Thomas Fuller gives OF the entertain
ment provided by George Neville. Among
other things for that banquet they had thres
hundred quarters of wheat one hundred and
four tuns Of wine, eighty oxen, three thou
sand cap0ns, two hundred cranes, two hun
dred kids. four Thousand pigeons, four thou
s1nd rabbits. two hundred and four btterns,
two hundred pheasants, five hundred
parsridges, four hundred plorer, one
hundred quail, one hundred curiews, fifteen
hundred hot pasties, four thousand cold ven
ison paSties four thousand custards-the Earl
Of Warwick acting as steward-and servitors
one thousand. o, what a grand feast was
that But then compare it with the provision
which Col has made for us on high: that
great banquet hour; the one hundred and
forty and four thousand guests; all the harps
and trumpets of heaven as the orchestra, the
vintage Of the celestial hills poured into the
tankards; all the fruits of the orchards Of
God piled on the golden platters; the angels
Of, the ord tor cnp-baarers.,aa tha. slce-
folded starry banner OF - re - lung
out over the scene, while seated at the head
Of TIE table shall be the One who eighteen
centuries ago declared: Il was stranger
and We took Me inn Our sins partioned,
may we all mingle in those hospitalitiesi